So Bertho was volunteering or did I misunderstand his message?
I've come to be a fan all kinds of virtualization, VMs, appliances The
android-x86.org project re-compiles Android for x86 which I run on Windows
8.1 in a VirtualBox VM. It is fast enough.
Most of Android works as it does on my smartphone. I like running my Apps
on my laptop while I'm doing my software development. The data syncs to my
phone.
FreeDOS could be valuable packaged as a porable VM appliance. That VM
could be packaged with simulated storage, USB linkages, printer port
translations, display adaptations, and a VM control panel.
VMs are what Amazon Web Services, AWS, is. A FreeDOS appliance when setup
for that environment can be shared and copied at will. If it crashes, it
can be recovered in seconds. Local printing from the Internet is available
already.
These two examples show that VMs can be expected to run any older useful
software on its original OS. As machine and OS emulation progresses this
can be expected to be common.
That reminds me schedule to build an AWS version of a DOS business software
package.
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